2023 Most Focused Colleges for Engineering in Hawaii

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Engineering is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 198,468 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,653 and had an average of $23,855 in loans still to pay off.

Across Hawaii, there were 301 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,419 and $20,625 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Hawaii” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Hawaii

The colleges and universities below are the best for hawaii engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Engineering in Hawaii

1

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii

#3 overall quality in Hawaii

$42,927 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,501 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Hawaii that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Hawaii at Manoa landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Hawaii at Manoa is located in Honolulu, Hawaii and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 301 ’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering at University of Hawaii at Manoa

2

Hawaii Pacific University
Honolulu, Hawaii

#6 overall quality in Hawaii

$40,963 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,756 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hawaii Pacific University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Hawaii list. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s engineering degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering at Hawaii Pacific University

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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